Word: semiregular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to reach beyond the silence. After Gullatte had his fight with skinheads in his school, he felt he had no one to talk to. He has since joined Group X, a program started in the Cobb County school system in 1993 in which students meet on a semiregular basis and discuss race. Some 450 students are signed up. The meetings, held in groups of about 20, can get emotional. At a recent session, Alison Garcia, 12, stood up, tears in her eyes, and exclaimed, "All Hispanics are not dumb! You don't know me. My father and my uncle...
Offbeat angles are what you might expect from somebody who has been known to surprise his staff by sliding his 6-ft. 3-in. frame down the middle of a conference-room table to get a closer look at a layout. Consider Zhirinovsky Beat, a semiregular Chronicles department that follows the undignified doings of the Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty...